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B.B. King

BAND RANKINGS:

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All Time

of 150,032

1,665
Decades
- 1960s
  
  of 431
  
  76
- 1980s
  
  of 1,418
  
  720
- 1990s
  
  of 7,254
  
  5,169
- 2000s
  
  of 10,569
  
  4,745
Genres
- Blues
  
  of 747
  
  412
- Miscellaneous
  
  of 2,546
  
  969
- Pop
  
  of 13,667
  
  6,100
- R&B & Soul
  
  of 1,920
  
  802
- Rock
  
  of 8,171
  
  321

CAREER SPAN:

Decade

Album Score

# Albums

1960s

2.9907

1980s

1.7480

1990s

1.4450

2000s

1.2104

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.

Overall Band Score: B.B. King is ranked overall as 2.2180 out of 4 stars

2.2180

B.B. King Biography

Formed:

September 1925

Genres:

Blues, Christian & Gospel, Jazz, Miscellaneous, Pop, R&B & Soul, Rock, Music

Labels:

Ace, Allegro Corporation, Bgo Records/hepcat, Blue Moon/tko Magnum, Blues Forever/big Daddy, Capitol Records, Capitol/emi/sbk/chrysalis, Castle Pulse/wave, Catfish, Charly Records, Classics R & B, Classics Records/city Hall, Cleopatra Records, D3 Entertainment, Delta Music

History:

Universally hailed as the reigning king of the blues, the legendary B.B. King is without a doubt the single most important electric guitarist of the last half century. A contemporary blues guitar solo without at least a couple of recognizable King-inspired bent notes is all but unimaginable, and he remains a supremely confident singer capable of wringing every nuance from any lyric (and he's tried his hand at many an unlikely song, anybody recall his version of "Love Me Tender?"). Yet B.B. King ...more

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